Bookies predicting a tight affair as Blades face Walsall

Walsall are League One’s lowest away scorers and nobody in the top half of the division has struck fewer home goals than Sheffield United so it could be a tight, low-scoring affair as the pair lock horns at Bramall Lane.

Subsequently, BetVictor offer just 8/13 about the match generating less than three goals, just as ten of the Blades last eleven in all competitions have done, and for more ambitious punters it’s 9/5 with Stan James for the teams to conjure up no more than one between them.

Expected to come out on top, Nigel Clough’s men are 9/5 via Winner.com to defeat the Saddlers ‘to nil’, a United clean sheet is 27/20 (Ladbrokes) and at the other end, the Blades are 7/10 courtesy of betway to break the deadlock.

Meanwhlie, the match winner against Southampton in midweek, Mark McNulty, is bet365’s 5/1 first scorer favourite, Skybet rate both Michael Higdon and Chris O’Grady at a slightly bulkier 11/2 in the same market and a Jamie Murphy is 6/1 (William Hill) to fire the opener.

Seven of Sheffield Wednesday’s last nine matches have yielded fewer than 2.5 goals, a trend that’s 5/6 with Stan James to continue as the Owls travel to Craven Cottage to face Fulham. Nevertheless, bookies expect both teams to find the net (8/11, Stan James) and bet365 offer 11/8 about Stuart Gray’s charges doing so first.

More specifically, BetVictor make Stevie May 13/2 to give Wednesday a 1-0 lead and Paddy Power mark 8/1 against a Chris Maguire opener.

Also in the Championship, Rotherham’s Alex Revell is 8/1 at bet365 to net first at Wigan, Devante Cole is 11/2 (BetVictor) to do likewise for Barnsley against Leyton Orient in League One and William Hill quote Theo Robinson at 9/1 to open the scoring for Doncaster at Swindon. Finally, at Gillingham, bet365 price Armand Gnanduillet at 6/1 to put Chesterfield 1-0 up.